JamVM 1.6.0 will be released off of this in the near future. JamVM 1.6.0 will be a combined release, supporting both GNU Classpath and OpenJDK class-libraries, with GNU Classpath support being built by default. I still need to run some tests to make sure that the refactored codebase hasn't introduced any regressions w.r.t. GNU Classpath and JamVM 1.5.4.

So what can be done with the OpenJDK port? As discussed in my FOSDEM talk, it is ready for a first release. There's stuff which hasn't been implemented, but it runs everything I've tested it with (jedit, eclipse, derby, etc.).

Some words on running the port. JamVM is not yet integrated into the IcedTea build process (although it supports the same --with-java-runtime-library switch as Cacao). Instead, the easiest way to test the port is to build JamVM, and copy the libjvm.so file into an existing IcedTea/OpenJDK installation.

After cloning the git repository, do:

./autogen.sh --with-java-runtime-library=openjdk

This will generate the autoconf/automake files and configure JamVM to build support for OpenJDK.

Then do make, make install as usual. This will put libjvm.so into /usr/local/jamvm/lib.

This can then be copied onto an existing IcedTea installation (or a copy of one), e.g. on x86_64 (as root):